Research focused on four emerging or re-emerging zoonotic diseases in four diverse African ecosystems, with an innovative, holistic approach marrying the natural and social sciences to build an evidence base designed to inform global and national policy players seeking effective, integrated approaches to control and check disease outbreaks.

The Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium comprised 21 partners spanning Africa, Europe and the US, and included researchers from the environmental, biological, social, political, and human and animal health sciences. They generated new knowledge on:

Ecosystem change

How ecology and people’s interactions with ecosystems affect disease emergence

Disease transmission and exposure

They also make significant contributions to understanding, measuring and modelling diseases and disease affect on human wellbeing.